I agree with the mentality, but I say it only works if time, effort and talent are actually factors considered in reward.

My experience has not necessarily been that. Most of the time, my "make it in a flash" vids are the ones that get highly rewarded, and my quality vids that I have shared to other platforms and have taken the time to really do right, don't get upvoted. This would be an incentive then to make shitty content.

Time is money, so why wouldn't you spend the least amount of time doing something for the max return?

There is no perfect voting system. I can def say that. I do think that the one we have is kind of hectic, and I really can't see a correlation between quality and upvote. Sometimes they intersect and sometimes they don't, which makes things that much more confusing.

I have just become comfortable with throwing my hands up in the air and hoping for the best. Creating content for Dtube and trying to get compensation for said content feels somewhat akin to throwing darts at a board and hoping one sticks. It can be profitable if you are lucky, but maddening if you are not.

I think very little of it has to do with quality though.

Just my two cents!